Please join us Thurs., June 10, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King. We will head over to Fries Café after the reading and invite all to join us.
Farrah Field’s poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, and Ploughshares and are forthcoming in Mantis and Cannibal. Rising, her first book of poems, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions. She blogs at http://adultish.blogspot.com.
http://sixthfinch.com/field1.html
http://www.lapetitezine.org/Farrah.Field.htm
Jared White’s poems and essays have appeared or will appear in journals such as Action Yes, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Laurel Review and Open Letters. A chapbook, YELLOWCAKE, was part of the hand-sewn anthology, NARWHAL, from Cannibal Books. He lives in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where he co-hosts poetry readings at Yardmeter Editions.
http://www.foame.org/Issue5/poems/white.html
http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/white_jared.html
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is forthcoming from Octopus Books. Her poems and other work will come out this year in Boston Review, Witness, Jacket, Harp and Altar, and Forklift Ohio. Marilyn Chin sent her to Kundiman when she visited the University of Cincinnati in 2006.
http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/05/untitled-cynthia-arrieu-king.html
http://www.typomag.com/issue13/arrieu-king.html
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
May Reading
Please join us Thurs., May 13, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Amy King, Ana Božičević , and Rob Schlegel. We will head over to Fries Café after the reading and invite all to join us.
Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidotes for an Alibi, and Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), along with the forthcoming I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. For information on the reading series Amy co-curates in Brooklyn, NY, please visit The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.com) and http://amyking.org for more.
Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) is her first book of poems and is currently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn, and is co-editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in June, featuring Cynthia Arrieu-King (a UC alum), Jared White, and Farrah Field.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidotes for an Alibi, and Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), along with the forthcoming I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. For information on the reading series Amy co-curates in Brooklyn, NY, please visit The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.com) and http://amyking.org for more.
Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) is her first book of poems and is currently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn, and is co-editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome, Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in June, featuring Cynthia Arrieu-King (a UC alum), Jared White, and Farrah Field.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Sunday, February 21, 2010
March Reading
Please join us Thurs., March 11, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Julie Carr, Richard Greenfield, and Christine Hume.
Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize) and Sarah—of fragments and lines (winner of the National Poetry Series) . She also writes about Victorian poetry.
Richard Greenfield is the author of A Carnage in the Lovetrees (University of California Press). Omnidawn published his second book, Tracer, in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, Lit, Soft Targets, Volt, and others. He is co-editor of Apostrophe Books, a small press of poetry, which began publishing books in 2007. He teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University.
Christine Hume is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Shot (Counterpath, 2009). She is coordinator of the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. Every Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST), she hosts Poetry Radio, which features contemporary and historic sound art, performance art, sound poetry, collaborations between writers and musicians, student work, audio narratives, and sound poetry.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in May, featuring Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize) and Sarah—of fragments and lines (winner of the National Poetry Series) . She also writes about Victorian poetry.
Richard Greenfield is the author of A Carnage in the Lovetrees (University of California Press). Omnidawn published his second book, Tracer, in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, Lit, Soft Targets, Volt, and others. He is co-editor of Apostrophe Books, a small press of poetry, which began publishing books in 2007. He teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University.
Christine Hume is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Shot (Counterpath, 2009). She is coordinator of the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. Every Sunday at 8 p.m. (EST), she hosts Poetry Radio, which features contemporary and historic sound art, performance art, sound poetry, collaborations between writers and musicians, student work, audio narratives, and sound poetry.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
Our next reading will be in May, featuring Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Friday, January 29, 2010
February Reading
Please join us Thurs., Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Jaswinder Bolina, Lesley Jenike, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Lyn Hejinian. His more recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Reivew, Ploughshares, and other journals.
Lesley Jenike's first book of poems Ghost of Fashion is now available from CustomWords Press. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon Poetry, Quarterly West, The Journal, Drunken Boat, diode, Sou'Wester, Pool, Gulf Coast, and others. She'll be working on her new full-length play project at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this spring. A UC alum, she's currently Assistant Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born and raised in Seattle. He is the author of four books, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (a collaboration with the Polaroids of Tim Rutili to be published by Sidebrow Press) and Poets on Teaching (an edited collection of 99 essays from 101 poets) forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
In March, the readers are Christine Hume, author of Musca Domestica, Alaskaphrenia, and, most recently, Shot; Richard Greenfield, author of A Carnage in the Love Trees and Tracer; and Julie Carr, recent winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Lyn Hejinian. His more recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Reivew, Ploughshares, and other journals.
Lesley Jenike's first book of poems Ghost of Fashion is now available from CustomWords Press. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon Poetry, Quarterly West, The Journal, Drunken Boat, diode, Sou'Wester, Pool, Gulf Coast, and others. She'll be working on her new full-length play project at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this spring. A UC alum, she's currently Assistant Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson was born and raised in Seattle. He is the author of four books, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (a collaboration with the Polaroids of Tim Rutili to be published by Sidebrow Press) and Poets on Teaching (an edited collection of 99 essays from 101 poets) forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.
The Bon Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.org. Readings are free and open to the public.
In March, the readers are Christine Hume, author of Musca Domestica, Alaskaphrenia, and, most recently, Shot; Richard Greenfield, author of A Carnage in the Love Trees and Tracer; and Julie Carr, recent winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
Audio files of previous readings are also available on our reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.
We hope to see you there.
Kindly,
Kristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick
Series Curators
Saturday, December 19, 2009
January Readers
Please join us at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center at 7 p.m. on Jan. 14 to hear Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and Noah Falck read.
Jen Tynes edits horse less press and is the author or co-author of Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press), The Ohio System (w/ Erika Howsare, Octopus Books), and The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press). a chapbook, Pins & Needles, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press.
Joshua Butts is an alum of the Ph.D. program in English and Comparative Lit at the University of Cincinnati. His chapbook, To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar was published in 2006 by Pudding House. His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, The Hat, Shampoo and The Adirondack Review.
Noah Falck is the author of three chapbook collections, Homemade Engines from a Dream (Pudding House, 2007), Measuring Tape for the Midwest (Pavement Saw, 2008) and most recently Life As A Crossword Puzzle, which won the 2009 Open Thread Chapbook Award. His work has appeared in Bat City Review, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review, and LIT. He teaches elementary school in Dayton, Ohio.
Jen Tynes edits horse less press and is the author or co-author of Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press), The Ohio System (w/ Erika Howsare, Octopus Books), and The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press). a chapbook, Pins & Needles, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press.
Joshua Butts is an alum of the Ph.D. program in English and Comparative Lit at the University of Cincinnati. His chapbook, To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar was published in 2006 by Pudding House. His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, The Hat, Shampoo and The Adirondack Review.
Noah Falck is the author of three chapbook collections, Homemade Engines from a Dream (Pudding House, 2007), Measuring Tape for the Midwest (Pavement Saw, 2008) and most recently Life As A Crossword Puzzle, which won the 2009 Open Thread Chapbook Award. His work has appeared in Bat City Review, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review, and LIT. He teaches elementary school in Dayton, Ohio.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
2010 Readings
All readings start at 7 p.m. at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (www.cliftonculturalarts.org). Readings take place on the second Thursday of the month.
January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and Noah Falck
February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Jaswinder Bolina
March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr
April: No Reading
May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel
June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King
January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and Noah Falck
February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Jaswinder Bolina
March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr
April: No Reading
May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and Rob Schlegel
June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Upcoming Readings
All readings start at 7 p.m. at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (www.cliftonculturalarts.org).
Nov. 20: Allison Titus, Andrew Grace, and Matt McBride
[Please note, this reading is on the third Friday of the month, unlike our regular readings, which are on the second Thursday of the month.]
Allison Titus's first book, Sum of Every Lost Ship, is forthcoming from CSU Press. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, won the first annual Boom Chapbook contest from Bateau Press. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their three dogs.
Andrew Grace’s 3rd book of poems, Sancta, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2012. He was a 2006-8 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review,and the Crab Orchard Review among others. His second book Shadeland recently won the 2008 Ohio State University Press / The JournalAward for Poetry. He lives in Hyde Park with his wife Tory and his daughter Lily.
Matt McBride received his MFA from Bowing Green State University where he was the recipient of a Devine fellowship. His chapbook, The Space between Stars, was released by Kent State’s Wick Poetry press in 2007. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alice Blue, Cranky, Dark Sky Magazine, Marginalia, Packingtown Review, Past Simple, Phoebe, Poet Lore, and The Toledo City Paper. Currently he is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and works as a poetry reader for Memorious Magazine.
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January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and a third reader TBA
February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Lily Brown
March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr
April: No Reading
May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and a third reader TBA
June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King
Nov. 20: Allison Titus, Andrew Grace, and Matt McBride
[Please note, this reading is on the third Friday of the month, unlike our regular readings, which are on the second Thursday of the month.]
Allison Titus's first book, Sum of Every Lost Ship, is forthcoming from CSU Press. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, won the first annual Boom Chapbook contest from Bateau Press. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their three dogs.
Andrew Grace’s 3rd book of poems, Sancta, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2012. He was a 2006-8 Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Poetry Daily, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review,and the Crab Orchard Review among others. His second book Shadeland recently won the 2008 Ohio State University Press / The JournalAward for Poetry. He lives in Hyde Park with his wife Tory and his daughter Lily.
Matt McBride received his MFA from Bowing Green State University where he was the recipient of a Devine fellowship. His chapbook, The Space between Stars, was released by Kent State’s Wick Poetry press in 2007. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming from Alice Blue, Cranky, Dark Sky Magazine, Marginalia, Packingtown Review, Past Simple, Phoebe, Poet Lore, and The Toledo City Paper. Currently he is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and works as a poetry reader for Memorious Magazine.
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January 14: Jen Tynes, Josh Butts, and a third reader TBA
February 11: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lesley Jenike, and Lily Brown
March 11: Christine Hume, Richard Greenfield, and Julie Carr
April: No Reading
May 13: Ana Božičević, Amy King, and a third reader TBA
June 10: Farrah Field, Jared White, and Cynthia Arrieu-King
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